On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Rob> On Monday 05 January 2009 05:19:13 Alan Cox wrote: > >> You could of course just learn to use the functions the kernel > >> provides. If you want to recover disk blocks without retrying you > >> can do that via SG_IO. If you want to adjust the timeout and retry > >> levels you can do that too via sysfs. > > Rob> Good to know, but "my laptop hard drive just died" is not the > Rob> optimal time to learn these sorts of things. > > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ While nice, it does not reconfigure the block layer to reduce retries; at least not in a manner I see at a glance; no sysctl or SG_IO or ioctl or fcntl anywhere. -- Matthias Andree -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
